Episode 4878: Cleaning Millions Of Illegal Voters Off Voter Rolls; Fight Over Redistricting Grows
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How ironclad is the 22nd Amendment?
How ironclad is the 22nd Amendment? And you heard Bannon there. Are there ways that Trump and his allies can circumvent the Constitution or rewrite it?
Well, the 22nd Amendment is ironclad unless you are intent on strangling the entire meaning and intent out of the 22nd Amendment.
Are there ways Trump and his allies can circumvent the Constitution?
It's fairly clear that you can't be elected to more than two terms of office as president. And the 12th Amendment also makes it clear that you can't run for vice president and And being ineligible for the presidency. And so you really have to do a couple of things. One is that you would have to claim that somehow being elected is different from serving. And that's entirely inconsistent with what conservatives in Congress in the late 1940s were attempting to achieve. with the 22nd Amendment. And I think, again, you have to look at the history and tradition here that Americans have traditionally had presidents that served for two terms. FDR broke that. I think I won't minimize the partisan motivations of Republicans in the 1940s to get this amendment in place.
And they certainly couched it in terms of being anti-authoritarian and pro-democracy. But at the end of the day, everybody knows what this amendment was supposed to do. It's simply supposed to keep somebody from running and serving more than two terms in office. And it's just simple as that.
Can we just say that the Justice Department was not weaponized under the Biden administration? There were Democrats and Republicans that faced the wrath of the Biden administration's Justice Department. Like, the reason people were silent is because the president had credibly committed crimes. And it seems incredulous that I have to say that, Lisa. It seems crazy. I feel insane. Calm me down. I don't think I can calm you down on that. I think you're exactly right. The reality is, is that this president, Donald Trump, was prosecuted based on substantial evidence of criminality. And the Justice Department was not acting at the behest of Joe Biden, wasn't acting to prosecute him politically, was prosecuting him because—
They were. They want to prosecute him a little more quicker. My progressive friends feel as though Mayor Garland dragged his feet a little too long. I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that. And the fact is, is that this is this. We're in this scenario where these facts are not perceived as facts because in part, this Supreme Court. exonerated Donald Trump, basically pardoned him and pardoned him prospectively. So now you have him recreating history, recreating the facts and trying to assert in essence that he was politically prosecuted while he himself is engaged in the most political prosecutions we've ever seen in the history of our country.
I do think that there's an element of trolling. But as Susan says, you look at the East Wing of the White House, it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't try to do whatever they want to any norm or to any American tradition. And I think it's important to go back and to look at the reason why the 22nd Amendment is in place. There was a tradition, going back to George Washington, that presidents would serve two terms. And the reason for that was that we felt as if presidents hung around longer than that, there would be corruption, there would be no check on corruption, that the president himself would become an elective monarch. That was the phrase that people used, the founders used, to describe the threat of a president who stuck around for an extended period of time.
After the death of FTR, conservatives in Washington pushed for the 22nd Amendment because they feared dangerous concentrations of power that resided in Washington a president who stuck around for more than two terms. And when you hear Steve Bannon talk about President Trump being an instrument of divine will, it does sound as if he's describing him as a monarch. That's the way that people talked about kings and queens in the past. And that's a very un-American thing to talk about. China played a role at all in establishing peace between Cambodia and Thailand in their recent conflict?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How ironclad is the 22nd Amendment?
0:00–0:20
2
Are there ways Trump and his allies can circumvent the Constitution?
0:20–6:12
3
What is the role of the Justice Department under the Biden administration?
6:12–8:28
4
How has Judicial Watch impacted voter roll cleaning?
8:28–9:37
5
What are the implications of illegal voters on election integrity?
9:37–17:26
6
How does redistricting affect political representation?
17:26–23:17
7
What strategies are being used to combat illegal immigration?
23:17–32:22
8
What are the key issues leading up to the 2024 elections?
32:22–54:05
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